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Summary

Substantially revised for this EDITION, A History of Film is a comprehensive international survey of film from its beginnings to the present. This text highlights the contributions of major film-producing countries, significant filmmakers, and their films within social, artistic, economic, and technological contexts. This Sixth EDITION incorporates major revisions designed to improve the book's focus and provide more balanced coverage. New to the Sixth EDITION bull; bull;Includes new chapters on Indian and Chinese cinemas, emphasizing the exploding film industry in these two countries. bull;Adds a chapter on ";The Digital Future"; in American film, bringing the text up-to-date with latest technological and industrial developments. bull;Discusses more women filmmakers throughout the text and adds a section on Asian-American filmmakers, expanding the diversity and inclusiveness of the text. bull;Replaces many illustrations with new examples, most of them frame enlargements, and, specifically, keys all illustrations to discussions in the text, ensuring that the images will be valuable learning tools for students. bull;Adds more extENDed analyses of individual films, helping students grasp large historical questions by presenting them within specific cases rather than in abstract generalities. bull;Provides a new glossary, helping students understand the technical, foreign-language, and industry terms used in the text. Praise for A History of Film ";The reason why I selected A History of Film over all of the other textbooks has to do with the basic approach of the subject of film as a developing art form while paying careful attention to film genres and history; the organizational structure of the chapters; a clear and AUTHORitative writing style that explains the interconnectivity of film as a global phenomenon; and the use of judiciously selected stills in support of the text. . . . The structure, organization and content of A History of Film is so good that it is, to me, still the standard by which all other film textbooks must be measured."; -Stephen Ambra, New Hampshire Technical Institute ";The text concisely covers all of film history, and its size makes it particularly useful for film history courses taught in a single term. . . . It is typically quite insightful, yet not too dense for motivated introductory students."; -Mark Gallagher, University of Missouri

Table of Contents

Preface

ix

Birth and Childhood of a New Art 1895--1914

1

(22)

Brief Motion-Picture Records of Actuality and of Performances

1

(5)

Telling Stories through Staged and Filmed Pantomime

6

(2)

Telling Stories through Filmic Means

8

(6)

The Language of Film

14

(4)

Increasing Films to Feature Length

18

(3)

Films of the Period

21

(1)

Books on the Period

22

(1)

Rise of the American Film 1914--1919

23

(23)

The First American Epics

24

(9)

A Tradition of Screen Comedy Is Established

33

(7)

Emerging Patterns of Industry

40

(4)

Films of the Period

44

(1)

Books on the Period

44

(2)

Great German Silents 1919--1928

46

(16)

Predominant Types and Themes

47

(5)

Principal Technical and Stylistic Advances

52

(7)

Influence on Hollywood

59

(2)

Films of the Period

61

(1)

Books on the Period

61

(1)

Art and Dialectic in the Soviet Film 1925--1929

62

(18)

Historical Setting

63

(1)

Beginnings

64

(2)

Three Silent Masters

66

(8)

Montage: Theory and Practice

74

(4)

Films of the Period

78

(1)

Books on the Period

79

(1)

CD-Rom

79

(1)

Hollywood in the Twenties 1919--1929

80

(22)

Movies Become Big Business

80

(2)

Ascendancy of the Director

82

(7)

Popular Genres

89

(5)

Sound Arrives

94

(6)

Films of the Period

100

(1)

Books on the Period

101

(1)

France in the Twenties and Thirties 1919--1939

102

(15)

The First Avant-Garde: Impressionism

103

(2)

The Second Avant-Garde: Pure Cinema

105

(2)

The Golden Age of the 1930s

107

(8)

Films of the Period

115

(1)

Books on the Period

116

(1)

Hollywood in the Thirties and Early Forties 1929--1945

117

(32)

The Industry

119

(2)

Censorship, Self-Regulation, and Pressure Groups

121

(1)

Color

122

(1)

Notable Directors of the 1930s

123

(4)

Emergent Genres in the 1930s

127

(12)

Wartime

139

(1)

A 1940s Genre: Film Noir

140

(3)

Orson Welles: Boy Genius

143

(2)

Films of the Period

145

(2)

Books on the Period

147

(2)

Italian Neorealism 1945--1959

149

(11)

Theory and Practice of Neorealism

151

(3)

Three Major Directors of the Neorealist Era

154

(2)

Period of Transition: 1952--1959

156

(2)

Films of the Period

158

(1)

Books on the Period

159

(1)

The Documentary Impulse: British Film after the War 1945--1963

160

(11)

Postwar Comedies

162

(3)

Free Cinema and Social-Realist Features

165

(3)

The Gothic Strain

168

(1)

Films of the Period

169

(1)

Books on the Period

170

(1)

Hollywood in Transition 1945--1962

171

(28)

Television

173

(1)

New Screen Processes

174

(3)

Fall of the Studios, Rise of the Independents

177

(1)

Internationalization

178

(2)

Loosened Controls on Content

180

(3)

Liberalism, Communism, and Anti-Communism: The House Un-American Activities Committee and Blacklisting